Bandm8 - Song, Band & Gig Manager app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Doug Currie
First release : 03 May 2010
App size: 9.69 Mb
Bandm8 - Song, Band & Gig Manager is the essential all-in-one band, gig, song, set and rehearsal organiser for professional musicians.
Do you have trouble keeping track of what gigs you have lined up? Whos playing each gig? The sets you are going to play? How that tricky middle-8 goes? Have the other members learnt that new track?!?!?
Well look no further! Keep track of your bands and their repertoires, create set lists, plan gigs, and use the built-in Practise Player to help with rehearsing those tricky passages.
Key features:
- manage multiple bands, albums, set lists and songs
- make detailed notes on each song, including audio, images and PDFs
- practise along to tracks from your iTunes library
- performance screen with silent metronome, audio player and pedal-switch support
- email song notes, audio clips and set lists to band members
- record gig and venue details
- make recordings of your rehearsals
- searching and printing
Check out the video tutorials at www.bandm8.net!
Bandm8 stores detailed information on your bands; for each band you can build up a repertoire of albums and songs, and make detailed notes for each song - chord progressions, riff reminders, images and PDFs of sheet music from your photo library. You can associate songs with tracks from your iTunes music library - if youre playing a cover, for example. And/or you can record some audio yourself - say, if you want a recording of your newest original masterpiece to practise against.
Once you have some audio associated with the song - either from your iTunes library or audio youve recorded yourself - you can use the Practise Player feature to play along. With its looping and bookmark functions and large user-friendly controls, its the perfect way to practise with an instrument in your hands.
After practise, its time to gig... Create set lists, drawing from your library of albums and tracks. Simple editing controls allow you to play with the set until youve found the line up your fans want to hear. Once youre ready to gig, email the set list and gig details to the rest of the band so they know what theyre playing - then print set lists for use on stage.
During the gig itself, use the Performance view; use the stage light dimmer to tone down the screen brightness, use the individual song notes as cheat sheets, and use the silent metronome to lead in your band at the correct tempo. During the applause, use the audio player to listen to the first few seconds of the next tune through your monitors - or even provide a full backing track.
Bandm8 also keeps track of all your gigging information for posterity... a complete record of every gig youve played, the songs your fans heard, and any other notes you thought were important about the gig, set or venue.
So if youre finding it hard to keep track of the numerous bands youre in, songs you play, tracks you should be rehearsing, and gigs youre supposed to turn up to - then Bandm8 is the perfect app for you!
Bandm8 currently supports the following pedal switches in performance mode:
- AirTurn BT-105. Switch functions are configurable, and include next/prev song, page up/down, toggle silent metronome and toggle audio playback.
- The arrow keys on BlueTooth keyboards also work.
- This might work for other pedals, but probably wont. Please email me if you would like me to add support for your pedal!
For a quick overview of what Bandm8 can do for you, check out the video tutorials at www.bandm8.net!
Please dont hesitate to contact me if you have questions!